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Monday, 22 January 2018

Destination Inspiration : January : Terminal 3 with Jennie

Hello everyone, Jennie waiting for you here today at Terminal 3 with January's travel bag of goodies to share with you. A quick peek inside to refresh our memories of what is there:

Product: Sprays

Technique: Stamping

Colour: Blue & Brown

Substrate: Wood or Chipboard

Both Alison and Autumn have shared two lovely projects with these goodies and here is what I put together with what has to be my favourite ever travel bag!

I decided to use some chipboard pieces from a Tando kit and liked the idea of layering the smaller arches onto the larger one.

I glued everything together before I started, which was a big mistake! as I then couldn't get my planned texture paste to run from the inner arch to the outer arch, so I had to start thinking again about how I was going to add my texture!

I am afraid that there are no pictures of the actual process of getting to this stage - I thought I had taken some, but I must have got completely carried away!

I gave everything a good coat of gesso before using my texture paste on the inner arches and then some crackle paste around the edges of the outer arch. Once this was dry I sprayed here and there with Broken China, Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo Distress Spray Inks adding a lot of water to get these lighter colours. However, I did allow it to puddle on the texture paste.

Finally I added some stamping using brown Archival ink. I thought the edges needed a little definition so used my gold pen and also rubbed a little gold wax here and there on the texture paste.

I love this wooden bird and greenery flourish from Calico Craft Parts and thought he would look good on my background.

I stippled two colours of brown paint here and there on the greenery with a stiff paintbrush and once it dried I was able to add a little gold wax.

And the wonderful bird (I am not sure what sort!) got painted gold and crackled. I added more stamping using this lovely quote from fellow Creative Guide Alison Bombers set of wonderful quotes about silence and singing (PaperArtsy EAB03).

This is quite a different piece for me (no flowers!!) and I have really enjoyed putting it together and creating the background despite making the mistake of sticking it together at the beginning. As a result it is a totally different project to one that I had in mind to make!

I do hope you will join us here next Monday where another Creative Guide will be ready to welcome you to Terminal 4. In the meantime there is still time to join in our current challenge

14 comments:

Love these gorgeous musical arches. The bird is beautiful in golden crackle, and I just love all the layers in the background, especially that textured text - and lovely words too, of course! A beauty.Alison x

A beautiful layering of your wonderful arches Jennie! love the stamping, crackle and soft colors - that bird on the stem is the perfect adornment to match your sentiment! a lovely project using the items in your travel bag! Julia xx